FAIRY COURTESIES. Be kind and courteous to this gentleman; HUNTING. We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top, Of hounds and echo in conjunction. Hip. I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding ;† for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. HOUNDS. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn + Sound. Gooseberries. The flews are large chaps of a hound. THE POWER OF IMAGINATION. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen NIGHT. Now the hungry lion roars, Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide. DAYBREAK. Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Are made of mere imagination. † Overcome. This can be no trick: the conference was sadly borne.* -They have the truth of this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady; it seems her affections have their full bent. Love me! why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured: they say, I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive the love *Seriously carried on. come from her; they say, too, that she will rather die than give any sign of affection.-I did never think to marry :I must not seem proud :-happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a truth, I can bear them witness: and virtuous;-'tis so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving me;-by my troth, it is no addition to her wit;-nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her. I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage :-but doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? No : the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Here comes Beatrice: by this day, she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in her. FAVOURITES COMPARED TO HONEYSUCKLES. Bid her steal into the pleached bower, A VILLAIN TO BE NOTED. Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes; That when I note another man like him, Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. COUNSEL OF NO WEIGHT IN MISERY. I pray thee, cease thy counsel, As water in a sieve: give not me counsel: But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. And bid him speak of patience; Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine, If such a one will smile, and stroke his beard; And I of him will gather patience. But there is no such man: for, brother, men To be so moral, when he shall endure |